North Carolina Central University News April 28, 2011 NCCU Students, EPA Staffers Join in Service Project at Durham School More than 40 NCCU students joined employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday in an environmental service project at Durham's Eastway Elementary School. The students and the EPA workers created and planted a community vegetable garden, performed a cleanup of the school grounds and surrounding area, and gave a demonstration on sustainability to Eastway fifth-graders. The activities are part of an expanding collaboration between NCCU and workers from EPA's facility in Research Triangle Park, in which NCCU students work side-by-side with the agency's employees to promote sustainability in Durham. Dr. Deborah Bailey, director of NCCU's Academic Community Service Learning Program, said food raised in the vegetable garden will be distributed to low-income families in Northeast Central Durham, the neighborhood surrounding Eastway Elementary. The crops include greens, cucumbers, pole beans and squash, she said. The community service project is one of many involving students from NCCU. The university was the first institution within the UNC System to establish a community service requirement for students. Undergraduate students must perform 15 hours of community service per semester, and a total of 120 hours to qualify for graduation. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404.592.4820 Skype:sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.